Patents by Inventor Avis M. Dickey

Avis M. Dickey has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4375191
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a new and improved economical one piece, rigid opaque plastic reproducing stamp for employment with inked stamp pad, a plurality of individual stamps or stamps of a series such as an office directive set utilizing a closed-end plastic, one piece singular or multiple parallel rank holding trough storage unit for side by side stamp deployment and having at one end a shallowly depressed stamping pad repository.Without aperture or reverse side protrusion, the reproducing stamp is designed with digital holding depressions on each of two opposite sides of the solid or enclosed hollow base and with raised stamp face depicting picture, letter, numeral, symbol, word, or message. The holding trough storage unit if flat bottomed for desk top utilization or with one side edge extended sufficiently downward at right (90.degree.) angle to the aforesaid flat bottom, thereby providing for shelf-type affixment to wall surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1981
    Date of Patent: March 1, 1983
    Assignee: Dickey, Inc.
    Inventor: Avis M. Dickey
  • Patent number: 4260135
    Abstract: A new invention of an easy pull clawed tool rest for removing nails, brads, tacks, spikes, etc., is disclosed wherein the size measures four inches in base length, 13/4 inches in width, and 11/2 inches in height at its thickest end, said vertical height rounding to meet the 1/8 inch height of the opposite base end in an arc determined by a connecting portion of a 6 inch radius circle. Indents of 3/4 inch width and 1/4 inch depth begin at the 11/2 inch vertical height midway between base and top surface and run parallel to the base toward the 1/8 inch height for a length of 11/4 inches, providing grip depressions for thumb and fingers of user. The rest shall be of molded 75 to 80 durometer neoprene rubber or comparable material which reduces possibility of surface marring to the maximum when the rest is used, while at the same time functioning well in the purpose for which it is intended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1979
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1981
    Assignee: Dickey, Inc.
    Inventor: Avis M. Dickey
  • Patent number: 4207694
    Abstract: For greeting card display an inexpensive, novel, centrally apertured, end-insertion, one-piece frame with attractive front design or coloring, employing a standing/hanging back triangular easel of wire or a double triangle back easel of frame backing material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1977
    Date of Patent: June 17, 1980
    Assignee: Dickey, Inc.
    Inventor: Avis M. Dickey
  • Patent number: 4178700
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a new and improved Tell Board wherein the length of the rectangular board is constructed to fold in half, the halves folding together to allow carrying handles at top and bottom to be one-handedly grasped. The face of the aforesaid board is enhanced with background design in keeping with subject matter for which the board is intended and is further made applicable with a plurality of interchangeable background designs which can be employed singly or for both halves simultaneously. The aforesaid board is further constructed with layering in manufacture to create slot pockets at top, bottom, center, and sides of each half, into which for securement of placement are inserted top, bottom, and/or side protrusions of minimally detailed, identically sided show pieces and differently sided background changes. A plurality of colors employed for the show pieces will distinguish one piece intended to portray a certain identity from its counterparts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1977
    Date of Patent: December 18, 1979
    Assignee: Dickey, Inc.
    Inventor: Avis M. Dickey
  • Patent number: D254379
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 4, 1980
    Assignee: Dickey, Inc.
    Inventor: Avis M. Dickey
  • Patent number: D254497
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1980
    Assignee: Dickey, Inc.
    Inventor: Avis M. Dickey